Lavender Orpington Chicks Not Eating or Drinking?

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Songster
Mar 14, 2020
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Seattle, Washington
To start off, I got my lavender orpingtons from a nearby country store. I’m assuming they’ve been hatched for 2-3 days.
I got 3 Lavender Opringtons 3 hours ago and I have yet to see them eat or drink. When I got my 5 barnevelders last year they seemed to all take to eating and drinking right away. The lavenders were really active in the store and now they seem a bit slower. I’ve always wanted lavenders and now that I have them Im very worried. Attached is the brooder set up. They’re not peeping at all, they were on the car ride home.
I dipped their beaks in the water just in case since I did that with my last chicks and it seemed to help. I’m feeding them Purina Start and Grow Crumbles
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Food and water is on the opposite side, the heat lamp is in the upper right corner. Attached is an image of the same exact set up I used from last year, only differences is there are 5 chicks in this bin, and the heat lamp is raised a bit since they were a lot older than the lavenders.

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